Oddities around the street that caught my eye
Oddity It is something out of the ordinary, yet “possible” given a fertile imagination. It could be an object or a place, or a behavior... Read more →
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What caught my eye of two street characters
“Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your generous donation …" -- your friendly sidewalk sweeper P. by name is an old acquaintance through... Read more →
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What caught my eye … at the local open-market
Making a place visible “What is the most difficult? Whatever seems to you the simplest: to see with your eyes what is there for them to... Read more →
What caught my eye … going beyond the pleasure of seeing places
The pleasure of seeing places “I did not find these pictures … It seemed I always saw them when no one was around. Man-made but no man. They are... Read more →
What caught my eye about the photographic near and distant
“My value lies in the fact that I am a man for whom the visible world exists” —Harry Callaghan, as quoted in the Photo Poche volume on his... Read more →
What Caught My Eye, How and Why
”Seeing is the important thing". —Callahan as quoted in Sarah Greenough, “Harry Callahan – photographs” “It (photography) is the... Read more →
On form and content
“Form is formulation – the turning of content into a material entity (…) Form is the very shape of content.” -- Ben Shahn, The shape of... Read more →
On the Still Life
The still life is closer to life than the “nature morte” because it acknowledges the hand that produces it. What is stilled is not only the life... Read more →
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When Looking Turns to Seeing
“Many will look but few will see” - Philip Thiel, from memory. “How does the impulse to draw something begin?” - John Berger, on... Read more →
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Drawings In The Life
The line drawing Chair, light, door (A.P.) M. Amiel '07 Sitting on the hot sand of a Mediterranean beach, my knees up, with a sketch book and... Read more →
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